Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)

Woody Guthrie - Dust Bowl Ballads (1940)

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There were no long-playing albums until 1948, so this one is really a proto-concept album. Guthrie wrote these songs about the dust storms that ravaged the Great Plains in the 1930s, and released them on sets of 78 rpm records. They were later collected onto one album. Listen: "Dust Bowl Blues"

There were no long-playing albums until 1948, so this one is really a proto-concept album. Guthrie wrote these songs about the dust storms that ravaged the Great Plains in the 1930s, and released them on sets of 78 rpm records. They were later collected onto one album. Listen: "Dust Bowl Blues" (HANDOUT)

There were no long-playing albums until 1948, so this one is really a proto-concept album. Guthrie wrote these songs about the dust storms that ravaged the Great Plains in the 1930s, and released them on sets of 78 rpm records. They were later collected onto one album. Listen: "Dust Bowl Blues"